Visual Studio Toolbox

With its focus on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio, this show will help you become a more productive developer. Join your host Robert Green and see what tools you can put in your Visual Studio Toolbox.

This is the first of a four part series on building cross platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, who discusses how to create Android, iOS and Windows Phone applications in C# from inside Visual Studio with Xamarin.…

Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is a free, open source plugin that turns Visual Studio (including Express!) into a Python IDE. In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Dower, who shows how PTVS provides Python developers all of the goodness of Visual Studio, including IntelliSense, local and…

This is the first in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Billy Hollis, who shows us how you can use data templates in XAML to create more interesting and easier to understand user interfaces.…

In this episode, Robert is joined by Lucian Wischik and Anthony Green, who take us on a tour of the new features in Visual Basic 14. These new features are aimed at making your everyday code cleaner and clearer, at making common coding patterns simpler, and at removing boilerplate to let the intent…

In this episode, we explore code snippets, an underappreciated feature of Visual Studio. Code snippets are existing pieces of code. All you have to do is type the snippets shortcut and Visual Studio writes the code for you. Watch as we first use a couple of snippets that ship with Visual Studio.…

In this episode, Robert is joined by Dan Taylor, Angelos Petropoulos and Charles Willis to explore some of the enhancements to the diagnostic tooling in Visual Studio 2015. You'll see how these tools are now brought into the debugging process to make them easier to discover and use [01:20], what…

This is the last of our second four part series on building cross-platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, who discusses Xamarin Insights, a new monitoring solution for all mobile applications. We get an indepth look…

This is the sixth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Brian Randell for a discussion on DevOps and what it means for developers. Brian provides insight into the benefits of adopting DevOps, as…

This is the fifth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Miguel Castro. They discuss how you approach new technologies, and in particular, how you approach the fact that as new techniques become…

In this episode, Robert is joined by Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, who shows us the Productivity Power Tools 2013 for Visual Studio 2013. This extension pack provides powerful tools for improved developer productivity. Murali shows the following new features in the Productivity Power Tools:…